PERC is now a full participant in EU Horizon 2020 projects INTRAW and MINATURA

There was a short course, TOWARDS RELIABLE MINERAL RESOURCES REPORTING, in Helsinki, 13th March 2015, organised by PERC
in conjunction with
Geologiliitto and to be presented by Dr Ed Sides of AMEC.
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The 2015 Annual General Meeting was held in Helsinki, Finland, in March 2015.

New EU projects: PERC treasurer, Ruth Allington, and PERC member, Stephen Henley are now
members, of operating groups 3 and 5 respectively, of the European Innovation Partnership on Raw
Materials. Stephen Henley is also an invited participant in the Extract-IT project (Framework
Programme 7), a foresight exercise to identify technologies likely to be needed for deep mining in
Europe by 2040.

PERC is a participant in a new EU funded project INTRAW to start in February 2015, to develop an international database
of mineral raw materials resources and reserves.

PERC has been represented on the steering committee of, and has contributed to the work of the "MINVENTORY"
project, identifying raw materials metadata requirements. PERC will be a key participant in two new EU projects "INTRAW" and "MINATURA" which are concerned respectively
with creation of a raw materials database for Europe and development of minerals policy recommendations.

The 2014 Annual General Meeting was held in Dublin on 29th March at the offices of the Institute of Geologists of Ireland.
It was preceded by a training workshop led by Ed Sides of AMEC.